Unit 8: Photography

To keep all my photos and edits organized I have created folders to ensure that I know where each individual file is and that I don't lose it. The folder will be split into original shots, edited shots and other screenshots, this will make it easier to to send files if needed as they are organized in their own folder. I will probably then create a new folder for where I will place my exported images and they will be exported as a JPEG file.  

To take this shot, I lowered the shutter speed on the camera to 6 seconds which allowed me to capture the light trails of the cars below. A low shutter speed allowed a longer exposure which meant the light in the shot was in for a long time therefore resulting in the stretched light effect. This shot to be taken at night because car lights had to be on and to capture true light trails it had to be dark. To take this shot of the Church in Doncaster town center, I went to the top of French gate where there is car park you can see out from and I positioned my camera portrait to ensure that the Church is the only thing I am capturing in my shot as that is the focal point of my image.  I took this shot as a low angle shot to make the tree look large which showcases the size of nature. I also included the bench to the right of the image which follows the golden ratio rule a technique in photography that shows that my images are professional standard.  In this shot, it follows the sy...

When I finished my shoot, I imported over 200 images into Adobe Lightroom so I figured it would be useful to go through each photo and give it a star rating out of 5 which is a useful feature on Lightroom. This would helpful decide which are my best shots and which ones didn’t really work out. This will make life easier later on as when I go to edit my images, they will be ranked best to worst so I don’t have to go searching through 200+ images to find the ones I want to edit and work with. The images rated 5 star will be ones that I edit as they showcase my photography skills best and fit the brief of ‘Beautiful Doncaster’. My 5 star images a believe are professional standard photos and anything lower than 5 star I don't think is worth editing as I can do better. My 4 star images a still good images but they are not at the standard for my brief or for quality photography  These are my best images rated 5 star. These are my worst images rated 1 star.

For this post, I will explain what metadata is and the information it gives. I will then discuss the difference between two types of metadata which is EXIF and IPTC data. After explaining this, I will showcase the metadata on the photos that I taken.  Metadata in photography is information that tells you about the data in an image. This can be information the location of the photo, the size of the photo and the rights owner to that photo. This information can be filled in manually or by automatically by the software that you put the data in. Metadata is used as it is a way to easily access information about image such as copyright so people know who they can contact if they want to use the image for themselves. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format and this is metadata that tells you more about the technical details with a photo taken on a camera. More specifically, this is camera settings such as aperture, ISO and shutter speed. However, IPTC stands for International Pres...